The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-18

Mrs. DR.. Ducat, of Forest. Her baby is
safe.
The wife of travelling man OF Kar-
akee.
Godell, father and son.
William Stephenson and two daughters.
Captain Dadelke.
Mrs. James Dealy.
Mrs. VIM. Allen.
| Mrs. Wm. Ball.
| Susie Ball.
| Miss Pearl Adams.
/ VIM. Regain.
| Mrs. French.
| Phena Frahm
! Mrs. Valentine.
| Mrs. Valdejo and daughter.
Fred Weinnel and daughter Pearl, of
Peoria.
Miss Kate Cress, Washington, and Cora
Smith, of Peoria, are fatally injured.
1t is impossible to get full list. Every,
thing is in the widest confusion. Many
are mangled beyond recognition.
THE TIMES ACCOUNT.
CHICAGO, August IL. - The Chicago
Times special from Forest ILL.,, says all
the railway horrors of the country were
surpassed three miles east of Chatsworth
last night, when an excursion train on the
Toledo, Peoria g. Western road dropped
through a burning bridge, and over one
hundred people we're killed and four times
that number more or less injured. The
train was composed of six sleeping cars
six day coaches snd chair cars and three
baggage. 1t was carrying $50 passengers,
all excursionsts, and was bound for
Niagara falls.
The train had been made up all along
the line of the Toledo, Peoria d Western
railroad, and the excursionists hailed from
various parts in central Illinois, the bulk
of them, however, coming from Peoria.
Some of the passengers came from Can
ton, from Ell Paso, Washington and In
fact all stations along the line, and some
from as far west as Burlington and Keo-
kuk, Ia. special and cheap rate had
been made for the excursion, and all sorts
, of people took advantage of it,
When the train drew off from Peoria at
o'clock last evening it was loaded to it's
utmost capacity, every berth in the SIX
sleepers was filled, and the day cars car
ried sixty people each.
The train was so heavy that two engines
were hitched to it, and when it passed this
place it was an hour and half behind
time. Chatsworth, the next station east
of here, is six miles off, and the run there
is made IN seven minutes. SO terrible
} momentum as that of those fifteen coaches
:, and two heavy engines, shooting through
4 space at the rate of a mile minute, car
9 scarcely be understood. No stop was
made at Chatsworth, and on went thu
p heavy train with its living freight, ant
. . sped through the
DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT.
= Three miles east of Chatsworth is llttl
: slough, and where the railroad track crosse
: a dry run, about ten feet deep and titteel
y wide. Over this was stretched an ordl
;, nary wooden trestle bridge, and as the ex
! cursion train came laundering down on II
- what was the horror of the engineer OF
- the front engine when he saw this brldg
was was on fire! Right up befor
his eyes leaped the brlghtsfames, and tn
next instant he was among them. Their
was no chance to stop. Had there been
Ii warning. it would have taken half mil
TO stop that one mass OF wood, iron an
IL human lives. The train was within 10
10 wards of the red-tongued messengers o
death before they flashed their fatal sig
- nails into the engineers face, but h
Il passed over it safely. The first engln
g keeping the rails. AS 1t went over Tn
=. bridge fell beneath it, and 1t could nav
u only been the terrible speed of the tral
= which saved the lives of the engineer an
:, his fireman, but the next engine Wer
y down, and. instantly the deed of death wa
10 done.
~ CAR CRASHED INTO CAR.
as Coaches piled one on top of anothe
a, and in the twinkling of an eye nearly or
re hundred people found death and MT
he more were so hurt they could not live.
= AS for the wounded, they were ever
where, as only the sleeping coaches Ell
caped, and as the startled and half-dresst
messengers came tumbling out of the
thew found such a scene of death as
rarely witnessed, and such work to do tn
it seemed as if human hands were Il
capable. 1t lacked but five minutes
midnight. Down in the ditch lay Secol
Engineer McClintock, dead, and Firem
4 Applyate badly injured. On top we
piled three baggage cars, one on top
another, like child's card house.
Then came six day coaches. They we
telescoped as cars never were before, a.
bnre6 OI bneu were pheu Ill JuoO oPo
enough for one. The second car h
mounted off its truck, crashed through t
car ahead of it, crushing the woodwo
aside like finder, and lay there resting
the tops of the seats, while every passe
ger in the front car was lying dead a
diving underneath. Out of that car
| four people came alive. On top of
| second car lay the third. Its bottom "
smeared with the blood of its victim
The other three cars were not so bat
crushed, but they were twisted in eve
conceivable way every timber and BET
Up CRUSHED A HUMAN BODY.
R. Instantly the air was filled with the CT
n of the wounded and the shrieks of thu
Us about to die. The groans of men,
n. screams of women united to make an
II palIing sound, and above all could
n heard the agonizing cries of little childr
e, as, in some instances, they lay pinr
is alongside their dead parents. There :,
x another terrible thing yet to be met. !